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Derek Lowe, an Arkansan by birth, got his BA from Hendrix College and his PhD in organic chemistry from Duke before spending time in Germany on a Humboldt Fellowship on his post-doc. He's worked for several major pharmaceutical companies since 1989 on drug discovery projects against schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, diabetes, osteoporosis and other diseases.
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December 2, 2010

Amazing Stuff! Guess Where It's From. . .

Posted by Derek

OK, let's try a game of "Identify the Author". No fair Googling - that'll call it right up. No, see if you can figure out on your own who believes this:

"Animal cells survive best in an alkaline environment with a blood pH of 7.35 to 7.45. Plant cells are the opposite; they prefer an acidic environment. As our bodies become increasingly acidic, some cells adapt through an internal evolutionary process and become more like plant cells. These abnormal plantlike cells have a high tendency to become cancer cells, which thrive in an acidic environment. So an important strategy for preventing or treating cancer is to maintain an alkaline environment in the body."

No, it's not our old friend Kevin Trudeau, although it sure does sound like him and the other "pH is destiny" people. The guy I'm writing about does indeed sell nutritional supplements, though, and has sold a device to make "alkaline water" at home. About that:

"Another issue concerns the infrastructure of water. Magnetic resonance imaging reveals that most tap water is organized into microclusters of about 12 water molecules each. In alkalinized water, the microclusters are reduced in size to only six molecules per cluster. This enhances the permability, solubility, and absorption of the water, thereby boosting its detoxification effects."

Great stuff! I'll bet you've never seen anything that enhances the solubility of water before. There are a lot of water hucksters out there, for sure, and these claims could be slapped on any of a thousand shady web sites and fit right in.

But that's not where I got them. This guy doesn't have any late-night infomercials, or at least not yet. I'll leave this post up for a while, then update it with the real source, and a few more comments. . .

Someone help... my cells are evolving into plantlike cells. Most of that I can live with, but the chlorophyll green skin tone is becoming socially stigmatizing. Surely there must be a $20 miracle bracelet I can buy to reverse the effects, right?

@ Maks: I have no idea. I was just making fun of hte the point from the original site that said animals cells like the (borderline) alkaline conditions, and that the plant cells like the acidic conditions. I have no idea of those statements are true either. I'm just a polymer chemist.

Have you read the patent for Penta water too? They pick out the CO2 peak (the negative one) in an IR sample and call it proof that their super sonicated water is arranged in clusters of 5 molecules. It's brilliant!

They also invoke plasma to explain how normal water is converted to microclustered water.

"Hydrosomes- a new class of designer drugs: -
The humble and painstaking research works undertaken by the author on these lines, conducted admittedly within the gravest of infrastructural and material limitations, have led to the final stage of developing a new technique of non-invasive molecular manipulation of biochemical interactions in the living organisms. This new technique, called “ Hydrosome Therapy”, involves the introduction of a new class of fabricated selective molecular binding agents, tentatively named “Hydrosome”. Hydrosome are three-dimensional poly-molecular formations of water (H2O) molecules that can be synthesized in any desired configurational pattern by a special process of molecular imprinting developed by the author. Hydrosomes can be tailor-made to suit any molecular target site in the living organism. Hydrosomes thus processed can be used as very potent molecular tools for intervening in the biochemical processes by selective binding of desired target molecules." -K.C. Chandran Nambiar (http://www.similima.com/thesis16.html)

How can this stuff be marketed? Forget all the sciency goobly gook, the real name of this stuff is hydric acid! It can actually be very dangerous! If over-consumed, it can lead to distension and even death! It can be vaporized into a potentially dangerous gas under conditions found in almost all environments. Hydric acid has been implicated in the accidental deaths of many, including small children!

Industrial factories have been using (unregulated) this acid for decades, carelessly dumping it into our natural streams and rivers, or letting it escape unchecked into the atmosphere.

I demand the FDA immediately review the so called merits of this acid, and weigh its potential benefits against the risks that it poses to us all. We owe it to the children and the future

And several generic versions of "Microclustered" water have appeared elsewhere. Trader Joe's has their own brand, as does Sunflower Market (the CO version of TJ's). It's all the same garbage.

I had the fortune to have had a coworker forward me the patent information (when I had access to patents through my company) and I read most of the "scientific evidence" and "clinical trials." I highly recommend it, it's a great read.

I think The Singularity must have penetrated his skull and emptied its entire contents into the 11th dimension. Or something.
Anyway, all credibility gone as far as I'm concerned. Just goes to show that a high IQ is no substitute for a good dose of Common Sense.

I haven't read the article, but I saw from the abstract that arsenate replaces phosphate in nearly every biomolecule in the bacterium. It must have drastically modified enzymes that can use ATAs rather than ATP. Weird. Very weird.

While this is clearly nonsense, the presence of tetrahedral clusters of 5 water molecules in liquid water is well documented.

Here for example is a popular article discussing evidence from Stanford Synchrotron Lightsource supporting the presence of such clusters and also hinting at some other configurations also being present:http://www.physorg.com/news186417938.html

"Magnetic resonance imaging reveals that most tap water is organized into microclusters of about 12 water molecules each. In alkalinized water, the microclusters are reduced in size to only six molecules per cluster."

Hmmmm....only a two fold improvement. Off to the lab to make monomeric water. Imagine how cleansing that will be?

There is some evidence that a more alkaline diet does have benefits (Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 87 662, J. Clin. Endocr. Metab. 82 254 (this seems to have a worrisome math error), Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 40 623) but this has nothing to do with cancer & just used sodium or potassium bicarbonate supplements rather than doing nonsensical things with water.

Alkaline Water. Some people are afraid of the truth and others don't want you to know the truth. It’s a lot like our government. The more that they are afraid of what you have to say the more they try to tear you down. While the water is not the ware all be all medical cure, it is a step in the right direction of cleansing the body so that it can do it’s job of healing it’s self.
The realistic fact is that people need to recognize the truth about Alkaline Water and all the benefits it will give you. We need to get the word out about Alkaline Water. The AMA and the Big Drug Companies do not want you to know the water really does work. They would be out of business if we all were healthy and did not need them any longer. The water really works. It cleanses the body of contaminants that we put in it by everyday living, floods your body with antioxidants that lets the body do its job of healing itself, and restores your natural wellness. For instance, this is how antioxidant are measured, the more negitive -mV the higher antioxidant level. Tap Water has positive +400 to +500mV, Wheat-Grass Juice has an negative O.R.P. (antioxidant) of -120mV. Which is good. Real fresh squeezed Orange Juice has a negative O.R.P. of -250mV. Which is better. The LIFE 7600 Ionizers TM can get over -800mV. in one glass. This is as close as we can ever hope to get to a Fountain of Youth. In addition, irrespective what Machine you buy, the alkaline water is going to help you feel better. Check it out for yourself and you make the call. Do You Want To Feel Good for a Change?

Roughly 160 cc per hour of 0.1 normal HCl is secreted into the gastric lumen hourly and ultimately neutralized by bicarbonate in pancreatic juice. Gastric juice acid secretion can be effectively down regulated for hours on end by proton pump inhibitors, a process far more effective at modifying luminal acidity than the consumption of alkaline water. Go ahead and take a guess as to how many cc's of bicarbonate are secreted into the intestional lumen daily (it's in liters). Take a TUMS and be done with ingesting alkaline needs to no long term effect. Alkaline water use would be like spitting into the turbulent seas of acid/base that our intestinal lumens are exposed to 24/7. Funny gobbledegook being marketed there.

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